My Vintage Toy Hunt Keep On Going!

[@brianartillery]

I love your unboxing videos - they always give me a delicious nostalgia hit. Airfix figures were a huge part of my childhood. Matchbox figures first appeared when we were on holiday - my dad went out to get a newspaper one morning, and came back with a box of British and a box of German troops each for my brother and I. He'd seen them in the newsagents shop, and reckoned they were nicer than the Airfix ones, which honestly, they were. Thank you. 👍👍👍

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

That´s some dad.

[@brianartillery]

@@toysoldiernostalgia - He was a good man for sure. Lovely bloke, but hard enough to skate on. He'd often bring my kid brother and me surprises if he had been working away. He's been dead for 20 years now, and I still think of him every day.

[@craigw.scribner6490]

Lots of cool stuff! Thanks for sharing with us!

[@USSRBot]

I feel you. When I get something I had as a kid it is a great feeling,

[@jasonesler2716]

Toys today are so 😢. What a time we had with sets like this. The Wild West set was my favorite in your new collection. Thanks for sharing

[@saint_ruth1691]

Those matchbox British 1/76 ones look like the right colour at least. The Revell re-issue were a different colour. Great haul!

[@blockmasterscott]

Man, you brought me some major child hood memories. Thank you!

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Cool stuff. Ive rebought a few sets of airfix 1/32 i had as a kid and the vehicles too 😊 They have some airfix figures at a local hobby shop chain in the UK which is convenient 😊

[@warrenchambers4819]

Yippie another video from my buddy. Thanks pal really can use a pick me up today. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Lol you´re funny dude.

[@MorrisHarris-sr5pr]

Hi Jerry, Just watched your pre-unboxed ( to save time! ) unboxing of all the stuff you got ( even though they were unboxed already) You have the right sense of humour to carry it off! A good presentation. I then watched the next presentation in which you posed the question: " Were the Guards sets really pink? " I remember well going into Woolworths sometime in 1959/1960 and buying the Colour Party and buying The Guards Band the week after. First they were both Pink. Second, each cost 2/- ( Two Shillings ). Two Shillings in today's U.K. money is 10 pence ( one tenth of one pound! ) Two Shillings was my weekly pocket money then - perfect! I could buy an Airfix kit or 48 1.72 soldiers. Next set I bought was the Infantry Combat Group ( 1960s Brit Squadies ). No enemy troops yet, so I had to fight the Coldstream Guards! 😸 Could write pages on the ancient history of Airfix, Britain's and Herald, but enough for now. Keep up the hunt Jerry. Good Luck👍

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Great storys and info. Do you have a Facebook account? I have started a Facebook group on toys, toy soldiers and the nostaliga and memories. Sounds like you have a lot of storys to share :)

[@MorrisHarris-sr5pr]

Hi Jerry. Sorry, I don't have a Facebook Account. I would never have one - hate the damned things! Social media is a curse. I used to post War Movie Reviews on the Model Hanger Site - tag name " MoMo" - and it all got too much! I have followed, religiously, the development of all the toys which fascinated me from my childhood until now. Obviously, the ones which I received as a child are dearest to me. I had lots of soldiers. I added to them from the Cornflakes and Rice Krispies freebies which were every boy's goal in the fifties and early sixties - free cowboys ( Crescent moulds ) and Indians and Guardsmen. Even a Robin Hood set! Plus Dogs, animals, etc. It is now a healthy collecting area - check out Kellogs free toys on the net. They seem to be getting rarer on eBay now. Cheers, MoMo

[@jeffreysmith6280]

Wonderful nostalgia! I remember the Corgi garage, I had two red door versions.

[@toysoldier68]

Do You know It's Christmas?😂😂😂 So nice toys!!!!!!!!!!!

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

You should check out some Atlantic Wild West.

[@DavidEast-u7m]

Brilliant! Remember having blue box. Some were crude but others had great details. They came in all different sets. Found some in my 1/76 toy soldier box with airfix and matchbox. Keep filming 🎥

[@johnrusselljr89]

Dude I wish I could be there! Flashbacks taking me back in time!!

[@rudidedog243]

Nice to be first, really looking forward to the next 15 minutes, thank you for the excellent content

[@darrenporter1850]

!!!! Those pink Soldiers. I think I had those too. Completely forgot about them.

[@SistorCarrera]

love this channel your more me than me!

[@NickKirk-ei8gu]

Great video, being born in 1966 these are the toys and types of toys I played with. Thank you, 👍🇬🇧.

[@ronaldmcdonald8303]

Cool, I'm on the look out for some old lead soldiers. I have some aluminium antique ones, some steel ones, some rubber ones and lots of plastic ones, but no lead soldiers! They even now do silicone soldiers too!

[@smcon6467]

Loved the battle damaged half track. Used to similar things with die-cast cars. Along with the magic marker for cameo. Brilliant.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

So it wasn´t just me then 😃 Glad to hear that. I didn´t some "custom" work on some Matchbox and Corgi as well but that must have been when I was 10-11 something. This must have been done earlier.

[@barryrice4957]

Oh WOW. The Buffalo Bill set has reminded me of the Sioux Indian set I had, as well as an Egyptian one which came with a Mummy and a Sarcophagus 😊

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Yeah Atlantic made some realy cool ancient sets as well like the one 'you had. One of these days I´ll try to afford them all.

[@simonbrown9310]

I do believe your Matchbox British Infantry is legit . Sometimes the genuine Matchbox figures ARE sticky , it DOES happen ,I have seen it first hand .

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

You´re probably right. I have a few 1/76 and a complete 1/32 scale collection and never had any sticky figures. Matchbox usually feel kinda dusty or like with a powder on them after all those years. But I have never seen a fake set of Matchbox 1/76 so I guess they should be legit. Gonna give them a clean with soap and a fine brusch.

[@simonbrown9310]

@@toysoldiernostalgia Ok but I'm not sure that soap will work. I think you will have a hard time trying to get the figures not sticky... I'm not sure if it's really possible, so Good Luck to you, I hope you do find a way... And as to fake Matchbox 1/76 kits and soldiers, unfortunately YES they do exist, but they are very easy to spot, because the box art work looks like a photocopy, and the figures' details are far less "crisp / sharp"... Cheers

[@malcolmbolton1473]

Great haul,I had the Airfix guards band set in 1/76 but mine were moulded in red so obviously a early 70's release,remember all those small seperate small drums that's for sure,also I had that Bluebox set with the tank & helicoipter,the soldiers that came with it were completely out of scale with the machines I remember,lol,can't remember having that cool looking world war one type gun with the spoked wheels though,love those kind of toy or model guns,I have a large collection of various types,cheers

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

That ww1 looking is not anything I remember either. I think the red Guards Band came in red even sometime in the 60s.

[@malcolmbolton1473]

I will have to google bluebox sets,I think I may have at one time as a kid had 2 of those sets,I can certainly remember 2 helcopters,2 tanks and 2 each of what I remember of each sodier which was 5 men per set?,but that spoked wheeled gun sure is a mystery eh?,cheers

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I think Blue Box did these in so many different kinda sets and configurations. I´m not sure if these are the exact same sets I had as a kid. @@malcolmbolton1473

[@malcolmbolton1473]

I'm thinking that too mate yeah,many,many memories from the 70's as a kid,cheers

[@eltenda]

..p.s. nice new items my friend! I had a lot of Atlantic too...i loved the west...at one point in the late 80 i had a laundry soap bin full of them..they were cheap to buy..i use to get a box every week 😅

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I would kill for a bin full of Atlantic figures,

[@tomsenior7405]

Perfect.

[@КостиныСолдатики]

Super!!!

[@allanbryan-tansley6010]

I had the airfix colour party and bandsmen in the 1960s. At that time they were mouded in red. However the colour party set, had been sitting in the shop window for some time, the box was faded and so were the figures behind the box window. Some were wholely pink othes half pink.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I know they did them in red in the 60s and then in tan/cream in the late 60s early 70s. So I need to do some more digging to see if the pink was the first color. I do believe it is but need to be sure :)

[@steg_of_neth.2877]

The 1959 soldiers were actually pink and/or red (I had the red variety which are still red.) If the colour fades from red to pink, over time and presumably from the effect of light exposure, then the colour of the box art would be severely effected too. It isn't, those soldiers have been stored away from both damp and direct sunlight.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

That´s what I was thinking as well. Or the figures should be affected differently depending how close they were to the window in the box. I have seen the second type box for the Guards Band with red figures (the one that has the same style numbers as the first Colour Party). Never saw the first one in red. Are you on any of the FB groups for toy soldiers? Would love to chatt more about those and see what you have. I´m gonna have to keep collecting these and look for variants. Thanks for the help. Cheers

[@pcojedi]

Great video

[@JohnWise-vg3zj]

Great finds!

[@mfadls]

You should make a small museum for all of all your toys collection.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

It would be very, very small 😊

[@leebalmforth2269]

So cool you still have some toys from when you was young. I wish i still did too

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

That´s why I´m saving most my sons toys. Hopefully he will enjoy them when he´s my age.

[@dieternowatius5062]

Jippey, something new out of your collectorswork 😉👍In time fixing old Hasegawa 1:72 stuff together and got an old Heller Code Overlord box for my son halfprized with every single part of it double inpacked. What a surprise ! 1,80 Euro for each old Airfixkit in Heller quality including 2 Coastel Forts ☝️😛👍 Now í‘m diving into your brandnew parcels 🤑😜 Maybe something in it again i‘m still missing over 40 Years ago 😳😂 Crazy your stuff, it‘s like visiting a museum or having a deep childhooddream 😅

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I feel the same way. All these old toys are just sooo cool.

[@danbuoy4859]

I have all the Corgi 1970s military vehicles, and that Quad tractor and gun is definitely my favourite.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I liked it to. I payed €35 for it which I think is fair in that condition. I also have a few of the tanks.

[@danbuoy4859]

@@toysoldiernostalgia that's a good price, especially in its box. I only have a couple of boxed ones (Chieftain tank and Cobra helicopter), but they were a nice range of models.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I love the Tiger 1 they did because I had it as a kid and still have it. So I like to pick up more of that one when I can@@danbuoy4859

[@HarborLockRoad]

I had that British chevy gun truck , limber and gun set.. also the kettenkraftrad and some soldiers.

[@AltCtrlFreak]

Wow I remember my oldest brother having those guards

[@BoysOfCinnamonCat]

Very Cool!

[@tonyhayterzzz5087]

As a child the guards were pink.the robin hood were green coloured.the cowboys and Indian were brown.airfix sets .

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Sounds about right :)

[@wsgeo]

I have a box full of Roco Vehicles and some Airfix toy soldiers in the original boxes, I was wondering where I could sell them off. I've tried a few vintage toy stores, and they just tell me that there's no demand for them. By the way, I have Airfix soldiers that I played with back in the mid 60s that are not as detailed as the ones in your video.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Ebay or any local swap meets is probably the best place to sell them. There´s a few Facebook groups as well that deal with toy soldiers. If you have Airfix 1/32 scale figures that are not as detailed they are probably the first issue of British Paratroops. They where not that great and got replaced with a new sculpt after a couple of years.

[@andron2348]

When the two different boxes of the Guards were issued, Woolworths had an arrangement with Airfix to supply the new "stuff" six weeks in advance of the other shops, my mother bought them one "Day one" and...........................They were and still are RED and still are. (all so I have every set ever issued)

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Ok but both books written on the Airfix ho-oo scale both list them as sold in pink first. Peter Williams also had his book sold on the official Airfix web shop a couple of years ago. So he if anyone has axcess to Airfix for information. Not to be a dick but I think you are completely wrong.

[@andron2348]

@@toysoldiernostalgia As a schoolboy we all used to bring in and trade soldiers in the playground, and there were no pink soldiers, I wonder if you have read my published works on the subject in "Toy Soldiers Parade" , If you want contact the "Plastic Warriors" group for more information. I hope that helps you out Dick.

[@Emdee5632]

Success with your ever growing collection! 😃 However you will never get any of my sets... 2:02 and 4:25 My only small scale toy soldier sets not from Airfix (1/72 scale) were the Matchbox (1/76) sets of the British 8th Army and the American Infantry. Their weapons looked too short but at least their gun barrels and bayonets didn't break off, what happened a lot with the Airfix sets.

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

This reminds me i have a box downstairs full of HO 1/72 scale Airfix toy soldier box sets.Wonder what i have?🇨🇦

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

You better let us know.

[@johnnybanks5321]

Do you collect or have any of the Marx toy soldier sets from the 1960s from the USA? There was a Civil War set, an Iwo Jima set (which I had) and a North Africa play set.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I don´t have any Marx at the moment but I realy want to get some of their play sets. Gets pretty expensive though as I have to buy them from the US and shipping, taxes and customs fees ends up costing more then the item itself. But if this channel grows and I got more revenue from it all is going back into more toys for the channel :)

[@caw25sha]

The British pound used to be divided into 20 shillings, which were then divided into 12 pence (plural of penny) and the symbol was d. Since 1971 the pound has been divided into 100 pence, symbol p.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Wow that´s complicated.

[@Lips-hc7bg]

Certain Batches of plastic will start to degrade over decades. Depending on the composition of the mixture, including reground plastic, etc. The plastic can get sticky or brittle.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Only seen Matchbox that feels kinda dusty or with a thin coat of powder. Most are just clean but some have that dusty feeling. But like you say certain batches could probably react differently over time and also depending on how they were stored. I have a set of fake 1/32 soldiers but never seen any in 1/76 so these are probably legit.

[@peterevans884]

Have you heard of PLASTIC WARRIOR ? A subscription only printed magazine for Collectors of plastic figures, now in its 35th year. They have a yearly Swapmeet in May

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Never heard of. Based out of?

[@erikvinje1893]

Love your vids, would be great if you posted were you buy a lot of you findings. eBay is not a very good place to find a lot of airfix soldiers.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Unfortunatly Ebay is where I get most of my stuff. There´s not realy any good toy fairs here so I´m stuck with Ebat and a Swedish auction site called Tradera.

[@Jackdaw5]

If you look carefully at the Puma armoured car in the Matchbox catalogue you'll see they used the figures from the AIRFIX 1/76 armoured car! Don't think companies would get away with that sort of thing these days. 😂

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I checked and they were not the matchbox figures that then came with the set. Haven´t checked the Airfix set but will. Cool fun easter egg. Cheers

[@tonyrobinson362]

Ive got hundreds of Airfix troops 1.76 plus 1.32 plus Matchbox troops 1.32, But know collect Port Merrion coffee sets instead bit of a leap i know, ps like 25 pounder and quad set.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Lol that´s some leap man.

[@davidfindlay878]

I had the HO/OO guards in red - but they may have made them in other colours.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Yes first thet were pink then red and finally tan/yellow.

[@michaelwhiles5282]

FAB !

[@glennb1679]

What!! Fake Matchbox figures!! Really?? Love the Willd West.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I have a set of fake 1/32 Matchbox soldiers. The box is porly printed and the figures even worse. Never seen a copy 1/76 though. But like someone mentioned they are probably legit just stored in a bad way. Never had any sticky Matchbox soldiers before this one.

[@buddyfaison9353]

Sky wings vs battle ships

[@monicabello3527]

Airfix is re-releasing in 2024 both the Grenadier and the Grenadier band😂same tooling of half a century ago I belive

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

It´s gonna be interesting to compare them.

[@andrewtolhurst1273]

Try Vectis auctions in the uk, loads of stuff in their next auction in march

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I have bought stuff from them before but it gets kinda expensive with their fees. But I was very happy with what I bought and their service. If I by from them it´s usually if they have a collection or a large part of a collection in one sale. I bought all 10 Matchbox Seakings from them and then it makes financial sence.

[@andrewtolhurst1273]

At least you're aware of them. Love your videos, bring back so many memories, had some fun sticking fireworks in plastic models 👍

[@caw25sha]

Why is he climbing that rock? It would be easier to just walk round it. 😂

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Lol I didn´t think of that. Maybe he´s an early adopter of Parkour?!

[@Ginger-u6s]

I want to go play army men at his house

[@bristow-smithquentin8691]

making airfix this year guard and band

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Yes they are still on pre-order. I think I waill have to get one of each set.

[@Twirlyhead]

Fading doesn't work so evenly across all the pieces.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

That`s what I figured as well.

[@dieternowatius5062]

Is the Corgigun shootable ??? 😳

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Damn I forgot to check. I get to exited and keep forgetting things I want to check with the different sets. Ones I have most of the guns made by Corgi, Dinky, Britains and Airfix I will do a shooting comparison and see which gun is/was the best lol.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I checked and it fires. Different and more elaborate firing mechanism then some others. This one you push back the barrel that then locks. Then you ouch a metal tab forward that releases the barrel and moves forward and fires the round. Most others just have a small metal arm you pull back and turn 90 degrees to lock. Then flip it to fire. It´s gonna be fun to compare all guns in the future.

[@MKE_Mike]

Airfix is re-releasing the Guards Colour Party and band for 2024.

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I know and it´s so cool. Unfortunetly they are not released until summer so I will not have them by the time I want to do a video on the first year of toy soldiers from Airfix.

[@MKE_Mike]

@@toysoldiernostalgia I wonder what color they're going to be?

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Looks like red. uk.airfix.com/products/guards-band-a00701v@@MKE_Mike

[@ropeburnsrussell]

My 67 year old heart is filled with envy. Is it raining, or can you play outside?

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

Screw the rain. Any wheater is playing outside weather.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

@@toysoldiernostalgia great answer!!🙂

[@Kenn6Bacchus-k2o]

My. Vintage. Toy. Hunt. Keep. On. Going

[@dieternowatius5062]

Guards Band in the Original Package 😳 Never saw those in my live 🫢 and i hope the new release will have the same quality. Shurely not in soft pink i Imagine…

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

I´ll get one of each of the release and compare.